ABout the Music:

Lyricism for me is an orientation to the material itself and about maintaining a certain expressive sonority.

I try to get to the essence of the musical expression with each piece - a process of “distillation.”

In all the pieces, I try to define what is beauty. I don’t know whether this is possible or not. . . , but it’s a definition I work towards.

I have stopped having ideas about what is or is not modern music, because whether the piece seems tonal, atonal, modal, etc.—the same compositional considerations are still present.

Counterpoint is a re-conciliation between the fixed and the fluid unfolding of voices (a synthesis of opposites) - contrapuntal thinking means that the past, present, and future occur all together, simultaneously.

Musical style deals not only with the expressivity of the composer but of the musical language.

For myself, composition involves the combination of musical materials through analysis, inspiration or chance - a subtle mixture of freedom and constraint.

There is nothing to hide behind… at first glance the pieces may appear easy to perform, but they're not. They require a great deal of instrumental discipline and focus.

Technique is the means by which one realizes or shapes the musical material during the various stages of composition. The technique employed for a particular composition is not separate from the material but is an integral part of the material and vice versa.